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When Lisa Wehrly was in high school in Portland, Ind., she often helped her music teacher, Katherine Beard, create homemade music boxes. The crude contraptions, made of cardboard and paper templates and taped around the edges, took hours to construct. But, they were an important tool for Beard's beginning students. Kids learned the concepts of rhythm, note reading and keyboard geography, among other things, using the box. Decades later, after receiving Beard's family's permission and blessing, Wehrly is mass marketing the boxes herself.

When Lisa Wehrly was in high school in Portland, Ind., she often helped her music teacher, Katherine Beard, create homemade music boxes. The crude contraptions, made of cardboard and paper templates and taped around the edges, took hours to construct. But, they were an important tool for BeardÂ?s beginning students. Kids learned the concepts of rhythm, note reading and keyboard geography, among other things, using the box. Decades later, after receiving BeardÂ?

MISHAWAKA Â? Nick Dalton was in awe Monday morning as he stood in the MartinÂ?s Super Markets here on McKinley Avenue. The store, which closed its doors Sunday night, decided to donate its remaining inventory to the Food Bank of Northern Indiana. And with many of the shelves still stocked with a range of foods and supplies, Dalton, assistant executive director of the Food Bank, knew he certainly wasnÂ?t leaving empty-handed. Â?This is a great surprise for us,Â? Dalton said.

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PLYMOUTH -- Dee Wiles rocks. She has rocks in the house, rocks in the barn. Drawers and antique cabinets are full of rocks of all kinds. She has shoeboxes, cigar boxes, cardboard boxes and display cases of rocks throughout her home and in the basement and screened-in porch. Pounds and pounds of rocks: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. She has 200 pounds of jade and dozens of semi-precious rocks that, when held up to the light, show glimmering veins of amethyst and opal. Some are valued at $50 apiece.

PLYMOUTH I f pumpkins could fly, these should fly. The alternative last week at Jefferson Elementary School was for them to rocket 88 feet straight down onto a paved playground. Their protection? Pieces of this and that pulled together by third-graders. And frankly, truth be told, nearly every youngster there was hoping to hear a splat, not a thud, when the packed pumpkins pounded the pavement. The lesson at Jefferson's second annual pumpkin drop, third-grade teachers said, wasn't really about protecting the pumpkins anyway.

Growing up in the early Fifties, times were just as hard then as they are now. Mother was very sick, so Dad had five children to raise. When it came to Christmas, we each received one gift, wrapped in the funny papers because we couldn't afford Christmas wrappings. It didn't matter. We all had each other. Our neighbors in Clay Township in St. Joseph County had six children and for their presents, the parents would go to the store and pick up empty boxes, wrap them and place them under the tree.

MINNEAPOLIS Everything about Brett Favre after the Minnesota Vikings' 30-23 victory over the Green Bay Packers on Monday looked familiar except the uniform and his expression in victory. Wearing his purple No. 4 jersey and an awkward smile, Favre hugged one Vikings teammate after another before he turned to face his beaten foe. For the first time on the same field with the Packers, Favre was glad they lost. "I wasn't out to prove anything," a subdued Favre said. "I knew I could play. " Favre honestly didn't know how he would respond to the pressure he couldn't ignore.